>> now, with the debt limit fight on the horizon, you can bet that the republicans are going to be looking for revenue, and they are going to go right to social security. the bottom line in all of this is, they're going to lie to the american people. they're going to tell you that it's part of the problem, that it doesn't work. that it can't be fixed. there is no crisis right now. and now if you couple this with the republican ideology on retirement in general, they have no problem going after people's pensions to make city budget work. they have no problem making sure that they privatize absolutely everything. if we had privatized social security right after bush was re-elected, the first trip he made was to fargo, north dakota, in january of 2005 to start his privatization tour, which the american people rejected. what if we had gone along with that? what happened to the market in 2009? what would have happened to all of those americans who were counting on social security and living on a fixed income?